But kde is so nice
It’s windows that mimics kde plasma tho
You can make kde macOS, easy, if you really want. KDE is whatever you want it to be
Standard non-customized KDE is so good I personally don’t know why would anyone want it to mimic anything else.
It’s what Windows wished it could look like.
I don’t like taskbar designs in general, I prefer the top bar with the menu bar integrated and I don’t like startmenu, that’s why I have fullscreen launcher set up, and well something like a dock that is hiding automatically is handy as well And suddenly I have a macOS design without wanting to mimic it…
What is the core difference between windows design and standard KDE design if I may ask?
I agree, although I do like a MacOS-like dock, because when I was a kid using Gnome, I always loved the dock it came with by default. I’m a filthy casual though, so I can see why some don’t like the docks.
KDE is no less casual, so it’s a matter of your personal preference :)
And it’s just a habit - some people grew with docks, some with start menus.
I guess I meant casual in a “I love Linux, and what it stands for, but I don’t know all the intricacies that make it.” :P
But thank you!
Only acceptable if Windows 98 or earlier.
I am a fan of Vista, but 95 was my gateway drug to tech. I remember when I was like, 4? And I discovered that exes were like, huge! But lnks, tiny! Why do we have all these space-hogging exes anyway? Begone! Look dad, I saved us so much drive space! Why does nothing work now?
And that’s basically been my method of learning ever since. How much can you really break, before it’s broken, and why? Let’s find out!
I used to mess with my windows Millenium so much and deleting random files and changing regex and understanding how things worked that tech support guy was almost every 2 weeks there reinstalling the system for me. And that was how they started to give me copies of the cds to install myself so I wouldn’t bother them so much.
Getting the windows ME installation disks (floppys) was how I started learning my way around computers. I could experiment with the registry and other files and if I broke something I could just to re install the OS
I am a fan of Vista
Alright, let’s get out the burning stakes.
Vista did a bunch of great things… It added BitLocker drive encryption. It added the Snipping Tool for screenshots. It added a newer driver model that end up making drivers far more reliable than on Windows 9x and XP. It required drivers to be signed, which helps a lot with security. It added UAC, which was initially painful but also really helped improve security (no more running every single process with admin permissions). It moved
C:\Documents and Settings\toC:\Usersso we didn’t have to type that long path any more. And probably a bunch of others I’m forgettingIt was kinda half-baked at the time, but these are all major defining features of Windows. It just took a while for them to become stable.
Self-healing capabilities, and the ability to do an ‘in-place upgrade’ (installing win over itself without data loss) were huge too. I had to wipe + reinstall XP dozens of times throughout the years, often for some small bullshit. I was a Vista beta tester, and got a copy for my machine as soon as it went gold. I went all-in and it was actually a fantastic OS. 7 was good too, but it didn’t do that much new, comparatively. It stood on the shoulders of giants.
All live Windows Longhorn (Vista).
format? Why yes I’d want a properly formatted drive let me just run that.
Look ma, we have so much space now!
How would I go and simulate win3.11, with programm manager and all.
Idk, ask your therapist
I don’t have one :(
There’s a window manager called “progman” https://github.com/jcs/progman but it gives you the look, but not the program selector.
I had to convince my cousin I bought him a Mac, but I didn’t want to support a Mac, so I tweaked KDE to look like OSX. He thought it was great how cheap he got a laptop, and was surprised Dell made Macs now. Had him fooled for about 2 years until he asked some kid to help him do something.
I just shrugged and asked him if he’d have known if he hadn’t been told. Yah, cuz knows cows, not computers.
Is this like a real anecdote? Two years… no problems no questions ?
If you’re setting up a computer for family then you’re the one who deals with the problems
For most people that is just running a browser so issues are unlikely to surface
Really, no issues. Manjaro KDE. All he uses is a browser and WPS Office.
Sorry, no issues… Manjaro?
I cannot visualize 6 months without it breaking on update.
I run Manjaro on about a half dozen systems for the last 5 or so years. I’ve had very few problems. I’ve used a lot of distros over the last 30 years, it’s been the least maintenance.
There’s a lot of unfounded Manjaro hate on this site, probably by people that have never used it and just parrot the Manjarno narrative. It’s pretty sad to see how it gets maligned at every opportunity.
Come on, everyone knows you’re supposed to tweak your Linux to look like MacOS on mushrooms.
I always leaned into “Commercial Unix Workstation Circa 1993”. I’ve considered CDE/NsCDE, but a lot of the pack-in software is of limited value, so I’m going for FVWM on the desktop and MWM on the laptop.
I should mod my big tower case to look like a brother of a HP 712.
You can’t just post this without screenshots.
Check my post history, posted the laptop a couple weeks ago.
I installed Gnome and now everything looks like macOS. Help!!!
Elementary OS 👀
Extension manager flatpak
I have MATE setup to look like OSX. Beach ball go BRRR.
I was gonna say, everyone I know and myself tweaks them to look like a Mac. 😆
Apple is really the only company that did serious research on building their initial UIs with their human interface guidelines. It’s clear they don’t anymore, and everything is about driving engagement or whatever, but like during the golden era of OS X, Tiger, their UI was far superior, and most desktop environments borrow much of that stuff to this day. I now want a hat that says “Make macOS Tiger again”
I prefer to make MATE look more like Windows, with the taskbar on the bottom… otherwise, I leave the Applications Launcher Menu as is.
On the contrary, if you do that, some users wouldn’t even notice they switched to linux!
Or you can do a little trolling
When I ran Cinnamon Mint I definitely did this. Looked like Windows 7.
Can you make it have those Aero glass effects that was the coolest shit
you can on kde plasma
Legitimately best OS theme ever.
Isn’t that already the general vibe of Cinnamon? Windows 7 but with a black-and-green theme.
A black-and green-theme AND start menu searching that is accurate and fast.
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Yeah, sorta. But this goes all the way with even more specific styling to look like Windows 7.
Funny, I tweaked my Linux PC at work to look like Windows XP. It’s so cursed, I love it.
XP was peak Windows, good times
I fucking love KDEs Windows 95 theming for some of the interface, while still looking sleek and fast as hell. That and the Plastik theme for the minimize, fullscreen, and exit buttons. :)
I do this, legitimately – but with a very specific application: Firefox. On Windows, I can get firefox top border to a VERY small amount. But for some reason, in the past – every Linux distro I found, when Firefox is maximized, I still get an additional window decoration on the top, above the browser tabs. My Firefox bar on Windows only takes up 64 pixels of height.
For those that like firefox drawing its titlebar instead of using the system one (I can those psychopaths) it’s literally a right click on some part of the ui, customize and at bottom there’s an option about which titlebar to use.
For thise that like firefox drawing its titlebar instead of using the system one (I can those psychopaths)
Psychopath here. I’m so much of a psychopath, I made a custom userChrome css to fix Firefox not using the system gtk decorations when using themes.
I mean, at least I CAN fix this stuff in Linux. Plenty of instances like this in Windows where I’d just be stuck. I really need the FreeCAD team to get their shit together before I can truly swap over.
Firefox on Windows has this feature too.
You need Waterfox! It has that functionality. Your title bar becomes a tab bar.
You don’t like F11 fullscreen?
No because I switch tabs constantly.
Believes anyone asking for tech support is consciously aware of Windows versions
Lol. Lmao even
To make my dad switch I made his Mint look like windows, he’s happy
Ah, yes, Redmond theme.
Honestly, you do you.
i used to tweak windows to look like Linux.
you mean move the task bar to the side or top?
yep. and a wallpaper too.
Windows 11 be like: We don’t do that anymore!
That is actually what brought me back to Linux, I used to run Ubuntu and then Mint around 2010 but had to switch to Windows for work (and stuck around because it works well enough) but the taskbar being stuck on the bottom bothered me enough to finally make the switch back.
